✦ CODEX OF THE OPERATOR-FURNACE ✦ A codex for pilots, rebels, and wild ones.
I. THE FURNACE oxygen, metabolism,
a furnace in the belly
where stars once burned
and still their echo glows.
to convert what’s consumed
is no mere survival—
it is alchemy:
stone to flame,
flame to story,
story to seed.
II. THE OPERATOR we are the question mark
between intention and execution,
the tremor in the hand
The text presents a satirical exploration of disconnection in societal systems through imagery of a deceptive, idyllic future contrasted with underlying despair.
Time to roll the hard six, buddy—
dice rattle like bones in a soldier’s palm,
meteors clattering across the felt of night.
The table is cosmic.
Every constellation leans forward
to see if we dare.
There is an intonation the universe can take—
a low chord struck at thresholds,
a hum beneath the chest,
a signal waiting in the static.
Not luck, but resonance.
Not fortune, but frequency.
Then—
the ecstasy of stars aligned.
Myth fluency, sub routines,
the firmware, favoring story —
this is the air we psychos breathe,
this is the air we psychos breathe.
To ritualize is instinct,
a narrative reflex,
a story for everything,
since the first name was given.
A story for everything,
since the first name was given.
The net, the mesh, the nodes and knots,
the entangled weave,
jutting northeast to the next axis,
singing chains of meaning,
✦ THE SHADOW INHERITANCE: GWEN’S FRACTURE ✦ A Mythoanatomy of Supplanting, Erasure, and the Ghost Hero
I. The Transfer of the Bite In the weave of infinite worlds, the spider moves differently.
It does not fall upon the boy — the destined one, the written name in the myth —
but instead upon her.
The chord changes, but the song remembers its first melody.
Every swing in the mask is scored against the ghost of the version that should have been.
Up with dog yapping—
the kind of dawn
you could bottle and sip,
half war film,
half nectar of gods.
The Hunt for Red October in the corner,
curled-up hogs in canine form,
wet paws still cooling from the morning run,
snuggling into our small kingdom
after the jaunt.
One is resting,
deep-breath dreaming.
The other snoots at the folds,
nesting and kneading
the thick-yarned blanket
with a devotion
both fierce and unnecessary.
Petabytes in a single cell.
Romulus, and the dread,
wage slave, 24 thousand hours,
and a beat down for the synthetic brother.
Reset—
his autism is shuttered,
the despair,
the day in and day out,
the mines own us,
we’re extractors,
helping the company
take more from the universe.
A kid’s rocket—
launched for a prospect,
a flare of pretend,
in a sky already sold.
The Anthropocene, and a smoke—
A Singular Crystal: Assembled from Clamp, Collapse, and the Cold
The new,
the every other—
when I see them,
my brain explodes
with possibilities—
but a mirror
makes me lie flat,
play dead.
But I know,
I’m me,
dummy.
I’m in the lot
outside the tree nursery.
I love plants.
We’re so aggressive—
we eat,
chew,
grind up,
snort and smoke
all that chlorophyll,
those metabolizers
of the sun and water.
A Sith red glow.
Not a procession—
an inversion.
The aisle walked up,
not down.
This maiden?
Not to be given.
Not to be named.
Not for sale.
The bodies parade:
shapes and ratios,
percentiles and anomalies,
the sus,
the bonk,
the whittled and wild.
A trio of One Piece—
perfectly synced—
followed by a raptor,
inflated and bumping
like those TikTok ghouls
of viral memory.
The absurd has weight.
✦ THE WILD CRYSTAL OF ARRIVAL ✦ What Comes With the Frigate
The frigate split the sky like a blade,
not of conquest—
but of memory returning.
It came bearing all things at once:
a ration, a coffin, a whispered name,
orders tucked inside propaganda wings.
No one ran.
They just watched—
as dust rose like ghosts in salute.
Inside the hull:
aid that stings,
fire wrapped in velvet codes,
✦ SCROLL OF STILL RESISTANCE ✦ A Fever Dream in the Kingdom of Standing Still
Territory pigs, wild tusks threaten legs, without moving a muscle.
The field is quiet.
But the air hums like teeth grinding behind a smile.
Mud-choked boots sink deeper—
the roots won’t let go
and neither will the watchers.
They don’t chase.
They don’t need to.
They stand like monuments to punishment.
Their breath fogs in spirals, never reaching you,
A Broadcast from the Quiet Watchers, under surveillance, under breath
Be wary.
The dangerous ideals of democracy—
they glint like shattered glass in the sun,
and the king is watching.
Not the cartoon crown or the ceremonial throne,
but the deep eye behind the curtain,
the one that logs keystrokes
and measures allegiance in silence.
God sees it.
And any other conscience—baked in regulation,
coded into bylaws, or murmured in sacred halls.
I feel the prick of pain in the thumb,
top joint, a key metatarsal, critical function—
the lynchpin and languishing.
That’s just one sting.
Now imagine it:
42 times in an hour.
The pinching becomes a throb,
the ache grows teeth,
a chronic pursuit,
and my psyche bends around the trap,
enslaved to the inescapable.
The glint of happy comes tumbling out,
a runaway toddler
across the room—
slipped away,
scribe with the ink at the ready,
to bleed out in testimony —
that pen, that etch,
the motion and stretch,
the sacrament of gesture,
word as wound,
truth as form.
the anatomy of a witness:
a third eye,
a 3-body problem,
meta-mystical, quantum-bent,
into the spooky immeasurable,
the probabilistic radical,
glory flooding the temple,
light through machines mistaken
only by those
who dissect divinity
and call it function.
alive — johnny appleseed, alive —
The morph and form,
the treasure of a father figure—
and when it’s weaponized,
watch ‘em war,
watch ‘em go.
Protector or predator?
Reaper and surveillance drones
hum lullabies in foreign tongues.
That’s some bloodlust.
That’s what we’re looking for.
Drop another—
whoa.
So beautiful, that bloom.
From the hills,
it looks like a cool light show.
All that devastation—
and we see the fireworks.
Uncle Sam,
turned militant patriarch,
Luck dragon I love you,
You little weiner head,
Yes, I love you, yes I do.
You’re so squishy and licky,
A pup in the grass,
Sun-baked, hot dog, yes,
A little worm,
Laying in the light.
Goddamnit,
You’re driving me mad,
Yapping like some sort of freak.
Ugh. It’s constant noise.
Perpetual drama,
And outbursts of self-importance.
Noise noise, with you.
Clang! Clang!
Shut up!
She’s insane.
Isn’t she, yes she is.
You are not a person made of cells. You are a salmon made of prayers, swimming upstream through space and time, powered by mitochondrial fire, guided by acoustic harmonics, muscling against entropy, driven by impulses older than stars, toward spawning grounds where new forms of being will muscle into existence through your sacrificial completion.
✦ COLD ROOM WAITING: EXIT SCROLL ✦ A Terminal Transmission from the Bureaucratic Afterlife
For the ones who refused to be processed
I’m already dead
and dying,
waiting in a cold room,
waiting for the next one
to tell me the worse news.
Check with Sarah
on the way out—
get your account sorted.
Thanks,
Bob.
Tell the wife
and kids
we said goodbye.
Don’t make it a thing.
The wizards—
what arrogance,
the blind confidence,
the mania,
to think it even possible
and not only—
but also
practice it
like it’s paying
in pure gold.
Mad men—
who proved us otherwise.
Impossible—
how could anyone?
That’s wild.
What have they done?
Never seen before.
Assumed improbable.
Shock and awe,
clickbait in every syllable.
The dance—
the painting of pictures
with five words—
that generation expanded
by farms
puking carbon
Dissonance keeps us from witness.
Witness requires coming up to the chaos
and leaning in,
pushing your face across the plane.
Why would I unsettle my own reality,
why not content yourself in the shack we’ve cobbled?
My own peace.
Perma ruffle
and the feathers frayed.
Hyper-sensitive,
but I didn’t choose this—
for some reason it’s compulsory.
Self pity is a shame.
Sit up, straighten up little soldier.
Classic.
Getting worn down.